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While not wishing in any way to defend the unfortunate lack of judgment in question, I do want to appeal to the student body to take a fair view of the track team management as a whole,-to consider the wonderful development of new material that has rewarded the efforts of Captain Dodge, Coach Lathrop and Coach Quinn, during this winter, and to point out how much has been already accomplished towards winning the nine-year cup from Yale this spring...
...another column this morning the CRIMSON prints a communication that attempts to defend the Junior class for not rallying sooner in support of the Union dance, on the grounds that it is a Union and not a class affair. A few figures readily prove the lack of foundation for this assertion. On January 20 there were 404 Junior members of the Union, and the University Catalogue, which appears today, shows a total enrolment of 467 Juniors in Harvard College and 23 in the Scientific School. Eighty-two per cent of the third year students are members of the Union...
President Eliot and Professor J. H. Beale '82, of the Law School, will hold an informal discussion on the subject of "City Government by Commission," at the Colonial Club, Cambridge, on Saturday, January 11. President Eliot will defend the new system of municipal government by commission, while Professor Beale will argue from the opposite point of view...
...will seriously defend the practice of choosing courses with a view to securing a degree along the lines of least resistance. However lightly men refer to the subject in conversation, a careful examination of most schedules will bring out the fact that the great majority select their studies with some higher motive than that of securing a passing grade. But it is equally true that there is a legitimate use for the so-called "snap" courses. When properly intermingled with solid subjects they afford a relaxation, and at the same time have a certain intrinsic value. If a business...
...defence of athletics. The points he makes are good points, but they do not always bear on the objections they are meant to answer. Team-play does indeed cultivate honesty and unselfishness, but it is quite possible without the commercializing of athletics, which it is here used to defend. In "The Poet who Dies Young," Van Wyck Brooks makes a plea against materialism. Compared with Mr. Brook's writing of last year, this retains the valuable part of his subtlety and delicacy of expression, and shows a desirable gain in clearness of outline and definition of thought, even...